Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Asks Fox News Host Jesse Watters If He’s Circumcised While Defending Sex Change Surgeries For Children | JP
This was awkward.
On Monday night, Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed joined Jesse Watters on Fox News and let’s just say the interview got very personal quick!
During the interview Jesse Watters asked El-Sayed his position on sex change surgery for minors.
Instead of answering the question straight up, El-Sayed attempted to sidestep the question by asking Watters if he was circumcised.
The New York Post provided quotes from the exchange:
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday — asking if he is circumcised — during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors.
“Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?” El-Sayed bluntly asked the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host, after arguing that the government shouldn’t get involved in transgender medical procedures for children.
Watters was floored by the question.
“Jesse, are you?” El-Sayed pressed.
“Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that’s a personal question — doctor,” Watters responded.
El-Sayed, seemingly convinced that he ended the debate with Watters, suggested: “You probably should want to move on.”
“Circumcision is different than castration!” Watters fired back.
Undeterred, El-Sayed argued that it’s a “problem” that Watters believes the government should step in to outlaw sex change surgeries for minors but not circumcisions.
“I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling,” the former public health official told Watters. “So if you really want to bring that up, you can … I just think you guys are really selective about these things.”
Watters described El-Sayed’s position as “wacky” and “sick.”
“Abdul, Michigan’s not going for that. That is sick stuff,” he said.
Here’s the moment it went down:
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed asks Fox News host Jesse Watters if he is circumcised on live TV.
Watters: “S*x changes for minors. Do you support that?…”
El-Sayed: “… Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?” pic.twitter.com/ZSFm4z9rlk
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 25, 2026
Fox News reported later in the interview Watters challenged Abdul El-Sayed over his thoughts on Sharia Law:
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was grilled in a fiery interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday on his progressive policy positions as he sparred over his high-stakes Senate race against former Republican congressman Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed was challenged over his stated adherence to Sharia law, which was recently criticized by Vice President JD Vance, as well as previous remarks in which he linked efforts to eliminate Sharia law to White supremacy.
“Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else, just like I hope nobody is trying to push Canon law on anybody else, because we live in an America where you should have the freedom of your religion,” he told host Jesse Watters.
El-Sayed, who said he would “never” push his faith on someone else, argued that there is evidence proving the Trump administration has targeted him because he is Muslim.
“There’s statistical evidence that the president and the vice president like to target me simply as a function of my faith,” he said.
The Democratic nominee condemned Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., over his proposed legislation that would prevent foreign nationals advocating for Sharia law from entering the U.S., including the No Sharia Act and Preserving a Sharia Free America Act.
“The idea, that you have somebody like Tommy Tuberville – who barely was good at coaching football – is out here trying to ban Sharia Law when there’s less than 1% of the Muslim community in America, as if somehow Muslims are out here trying to push Sharia law, that seems to me to be deliberately targeting the Muslim Community, because they’re different,” he said.
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You can catch the full interview down below:
FULL INTERVIEW – Jesse Watters to Abdul El-Sayed: “I’m not scared of you!”
Abdul: “ICE is clearly not working.” Jesse: “Do you know how many illegal aliens are in the country now?”
On sex change surgery for minors, Abdul asks Jesse if he’s circumcised! Abdul also said Beyoncé… pic.twitter.com/DrLukBTeJ3
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